Frederick suter



Weeaeew FREDERICK SU'IEPe OF WILLIAMSBURG, NEW YORK.

Letters .Patent No. 90,793, dated :me 1, 1869.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent `and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known tbatI, FREDERICK SU'rnn, of Williams-A burg, Kings county, New York, have invented a new and improved Musical Instrument; and I 'do hereby declare that the following is :i full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use'the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which-'- t Figure 1 represents an end elevation of' my improved musical instrument.. I

Figure Elisa vertical longitudinal section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new musical apparatus which is operated by means of keys 0n a finger-board, like a piano-flirte.

The in vention consists in hanging a series of sonorous metallic disks in inclined positions upon horizontal arms projecting,r from the flame-work, and adapted to be struck from below by any suitable mechanism, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

A, in the drawing, represents a. flame of suitable construction, on which a series of projecting arms, a a, is airanged at suitable distances apart. i

B B are a series of metallic disks or plates of suitable form and thickness, fastened in suitable manuel- The thickness'and composition, as well as the form, of each platev or disk, regulate the number of vibrag tions produced by it, and the consequent-sound. v

i I propose to facilitate tbe regulation of the sounds by slotting or pelforating some or all of the plates, as

indicated in fig. 1, so that they may thereby be made f more or less elastic, as may be desired. v The metals from which the disks or plates are made, must be of some `metal or metallic" alloy possessing sonoous qualities. I

Having thus described my'invention, y What I claim as new, and desire to secure'by Letters Patent, is i' The sonorous metallic disks B, hung in inclined positions upon the arms a, and adapted to be struck from below by any suitable mechanism, as herein described for the purpose specified.

- FRED. SUTER.

Vitnesses:

FRANK BLocliLEY, ALEX. F. Ronnrsf 

